Cyclone Phailin: Cyclone Phailin batters Gopalpur in Odisha, heavy rain now poses threat of floods

  • 5 years ago
Bhubaneswar: Cyclone Phailin kept its stormy date with the Odisha coast, striking just off Gopalpur around 9.15 pm on Saturday with winds raging at 200km an hour whipping up a storm surge of an over 3 metres and inundating areas up to half a kilometre inland.

Thousands of people braced for a fateful night as gale force winds swept Odisha from Gopalpur up to Paradip and northern Andhra Pradesh too faced high speed storms, torrential rain and surging waters.


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